viceorverse: On Marriage: A Reply to Optimists

Orlando Sentinel‎ - 19 hours ago

Tom Cruise could soon call Florida his new home.

Us Magazine‎ - 2 days ago

Lainey Gossip‎ - 2 days ago

Though I shouldn't the Institution too much disparage

for something else that might bring us more cheer.

still it's high time to question traditional marriage,

even if without it, I wouldn't be here,

For the human race to long survive,

that we must have children brooks no contradiction,

but can't we somehow find a different way to live,

when the tale of everlasting love is too often less a fact than fiction?

One which hopefully draws many fewer lawyers' attentions--

those parasites who mainly thrive on everyone else's tensions--

Oh, though I wish I had an answer clear,

I'm afraid I must leave that to you....Dear.

HZL

10/10/15

PS: And, as perhaps a suitable epilog,

these excerpts from an older and wiser blog:

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
― Samuel Johnson, Lives of the poets: Milton

“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. ”
― Samuel Johnson

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”

“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.”
― Samuel Johnson

“I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.”
― Samuel Johnson

“MARRY IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE.”
― Samuel Johnson

Marriage
On second marriages: "The triumph of hope over experience."
Boswell: Life

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
― Samuel Johnson, Rasselas

“That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.”
― Samuel Johnson

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